cURL related rebuilds

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Oct 31 16:09:00 UTC 2006


Rex Dieter wrote:
> Patrice Dumas wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:42:04AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>> Patrice Dumas wrote:
>>>
>>> Indeed, most likely all that is required for curl-using apps (that 
>>> link dynamically) is:
>>> -lcurl.
>>
>> Ok, so what can be done to ameliorate the situation? Direct upstream to
>> change dap-config have a switch for static linking, and another for 
>> dynamic linking?
> 
> IMO, the "best" fix would be to get curl to use pkg-config (instead of 
> curl-config) and put those static-only libs in
> Libs.private =

OK, checked cvs, looks like curl already supports pkg-config, good. So 
now it only needs to be patched (trivial) to use Libs.private :
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/213278

-- Rex




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